Pair of elephant-head vases (vases à tête d'éléphant)

Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis

ca. 1758 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Relatively few elephant head vases were produced at Sèvres, perhaps due to the sculptural complexity of the model and thus the cost in making it. Of the twenty-one examples known to have survived, this Museum is fortunate in possessing six (see also 1976.155.61; 58.75.90a, b; 58.75.91a, b; and 1983.185.9).

Artist

Sèvres Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis

Date

ca. 1758

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

French, Sèvres

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1983